Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a317035ef3e8464b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.5 KB Created: 2021-09-23 21:57:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d479df12f2170cec931be85aff2ae5bd SHA-1: 1773a8fe20eb1ebaa5da886a2cababd587dd831e SHA-256: a317035ef3e8464bd14932e96300dba55ada6d899374aca103590403de334333
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious purposes. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely a phishing or SEO spam lure. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=when+did+the+new+season+of+walking+dead+start PDF link annotation
    • http://unionnutritech.com/upload/files/46871226213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starma.pl/files/file/nozazudoxanaderijevajiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f4573afc6---damegaburusep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matricula.netlandschool.cl/files/damidoxegemibegobupum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesvil.it/filesUploads/file/vokoxegefoxavixat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cc6c51a578bfc8ab936982a13259c80/rimabutisaxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duragloss.pl/userfiles/file/71703295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145dd58c164e---48326090776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqbr8ui6ncc9d28kqgsce74f5h/49580130972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serviphony.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/phpimage/phpimage/upload/images/file/pivoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/11478649615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nokianhakkablue.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29711664824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bastola.org/userfiles/file/96344706276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraya-shop.ru/upload/files/lemofutiwukifubep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94a816adeb4f230222d61d351153538c/xawokebaxobuvupudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziguratex.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/mazifetizipekakawigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagodilovaspark.hu/userfiles/file/pubebolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huijingweb.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901152213678253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k31szmq42-nu28.com/contents/files/suritokapiral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dc1515d445---vapumuxowaferadizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santehnika34.ru/images/file/67800582179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pharmorgsyn.com/upload/files/zosalexalabafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghinelliarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/jigekipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergladesharvesting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94700074564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taihegas.com/filespath/files/20210918022948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prabashproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/navibitikesipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hevolta.com/upload/file/wijowukomajawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001714b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1714B 10804 bytes
SHA-256: db3d7ebf7b69e063ec7fd07a9e365a35dfe1f6bc7eef747d9df1178d307347dd
font_01_sfnt_off000189fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x189FD 19028 bytes
SHA-256: 426c8622fddf282fe1116856503bea80254b8e088cbfc21f7c6dd1708f3e1013
font_02_sfnt_off0001bbb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BBB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1